Well it is Tracy's birthday today and Christmas is coming so I bought my self a camera :) I don't always want to carry my big camera around so I purchased a little Canon PowerShot SD870 IS. I had a gift certificate so the camera didn't cost me very much. I didn't have a chance to play with it much but I like it so far.

As I mentioned today is my fiance's birthday. Happy birthday my love!
As a present, she wanted a Nintendo Wii for awhile, so I got her one. I'm sure we will have some Wii action at our house pretty often :) We spent our evening celebrating at the Julio's Barrio Mexican Restaurant with a small group of family and friends.

It was a pretty busy weekend for me. I had a couple of Christmas parties to go to, met with some potential clients, and of course Christmas shopping :)

Tracy and I were late to one of the Christmas parties because I got a phone call asking me to come and pick up a delivery at a FedEx location. It was Tracy's present so I couldn't say no. We had to drive to a strange warehouse, almost outside of the city and go where the big trucks get loaded. This made me feel big in my small SUV so I snapped a shot of my car getting ready to be loaded :)
At one of the parties we went to a small restaurant Blue House Cafe. The food was amazing, it was really the best food I had in a very long time, I really recommend it!

Tracy and I were invited for a little pizza and movie party at our friends Sergey and Maple's house this evening. We had a Coco Brooks Pizza and watched a couple of movies - Good Luck Chuck and The Simpsons Movie. I really liked the Good Luck Chuck, I thought it was funny. The Simpsons Movie was pretty good but it wasn't anything special from The Simpsons show. We had a great time and I loved playing with their big cat Cleo.

Airdrie, Festival of Lights. Some friends and I went for a nice supper in a Chinese restaurant tonight and than we went to see the Festival of Lights. It was very cold but it was still fun to spend some time outdoors.

I'm back to Calgary from spending my weekend in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan. Here are some photographs of Toni celebrating her 1st birthday.

We had our first real snow :) and for the first time of this year I had to shovel it :( Luckily we decorated our house last weekend with some Christmas lights and now all the wires are hidden under the snow. As I heard on the radio, they had over 400 car accidents in Calgary today. What happens with people over the summer? Forgetting completely how to drive with a little bit of snow?

Some of my friends and I went for some sushi tonight to the Sumo Lounge restaurant at Eau Claire. I didn't have sushi for close to a year, so I was very excited about it and when it came time to order I ordered way too much. It was great, I should have sushi more often!

Some of my friends and I spent a day at the Banff National Park. We went out for our first monthly photo club meeting. I didn't take any photos that I really liked, but we had great time talking about photographs and had a very nice lunch at a Greek restaurant.

Winter is fast approaching so I decided to take a couple of shots of our deck. If you go back to May 6 in my blog you will see what it started as. It's still far from being finished but at least I can have people over for a BBQ once in awhile.

The winter is coming and I think we only have couple of weeks left for some yellow and red colors. Some of my fellow photographers and I (I'm the one in the green jacket) went to The Banff National Park for a day to capture some of the beauty. Here you can see some of the shots from this trip.